1 AUGUST 1885, Page 15

"ENTANGLED."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In consideration of the strangeness of a statement made in the review of my novel, "Entangled," which appeared in your pages, will you do me the courtesy to afford me the oppor- tunity of remarking upon it? It is said that, on account of the other merits of my book, I may be forgiven "the flagrant imita- tion of Miss Broughton's and Miss Mather's heroines." I have merely to say that I am not in a position to judge of the literary acumen of this criticism, because I have unfortunately never read a single work by either of the authors mentioned.—I am,

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